Anti-damage boost

Reverse damage boost (no official name) refers to effects that apply a negative amount of damage boost, causing the affected demon to deal less damage. This is not the same as damage reduction, which works on the target's end and is much more potent.

Mechanics

Reverse damage boost is applied to the same part of the formula that normal damage boosts are. For more details, see Damage Formula.

• Due to this, reverse damage boost directly counteracts normal damage boosts.
• For example: if a demon has a total of +90% damage boosts (from passive skills such as Fire Amp, skill levels, panels, aura, etc), and they face a party that has Cleopatra (applies -60% damage dealt), then that partially cancels the demon's damage boosts (90 - 60). This results in a total of +30% damage boosts instead.

Skills that apply reverse damage boost are usually phrased as affecting the damage the enemy deals, rather than the amount of damage your party takes/receives. For effects that decrease the damage your party receives (and in a much-more-potent way), see damage reduction.

Appliers

Skills that apply reverse damage boost to enemies

Type	Name	MP Cost	Target	Amount	Skill Points	Exclusive?
Passive	Covenant Bless	Passive	All Targets	40% Fire/Light	-	Mithras
Passive	Crawling Chaos	Passive	All Targets	25% Magic	-	Nyarlathotep
Passive	Hedonistic Reaper	Passive	All Targets	25% Physical	-	Guedhe
Passive	Peerless Beauty	Passive	All Targets	60% All	-	Cleopatra
Passive	Sabaoth's Voice	Passive	All Targets	30% All	-	Sabaoth
Passive	The Wings of Darkness	Passive	All Targets	40% All	-	Femto
Passive	Unknown Predator	Passive	All Targets	60% All	-	Old Ones

Demon Panels that apply reverse damage boost

Demon	Panel #	Effect
Cerberus A	Panel 2	+20% to Phys hit rate. Decreases the MP cost of Hell Blaze by 1MP. HP stops at 1 HP upon receiving the first two killing blows. While the one with this skill is alive, all enemies will receive the following effect: -40% to all damage dealt when inflicted with Spirit Chains (Intimidation).
Echidna	Panel 3	+20% to Ice damage. While the one with this skill is alive, all enemies will receive the following effect: When in a state of Gloom, -30% to damage and -60% to ailment infliction rate.
Ladon	Panel 3	+20% to Phys damage. While the one with this skill is alive, all enemies will receive the following effect: When in a state of Gloom, -30% to damage dealt and -40% to Critical hit rate.